Thus there is a new continent as it were, of trees like a forest, their roots drawing the lifeforce of the fantasy world itself. When they die the canopy breaks off from its underwater trunk and it becomes a floating island with thousands of creatures of all types on it, raiding the coastlines of the fantasy world like vikings, until they come across another ocean tree, where upon a massive war is fought for control of the living tree, its diverse lifeforms fighting the invader lifeforms, magic and dragons and sea creatures and arboreal (tree dwelling) beasts of all types. A new continent as it were in the fantasy world